Real Salt Lake

It's not too often in recent memory you see high scoring slugfests at RFK, but 17,288 at RFK got just that as D.C. United and Real Salt Lake combined for seven goals in a half hour in the second half en route to a wild game the Black and Red won 6-4.

RSL has been very good going forward recently, but it looks like they'll be pretty vulnerable defensively tonight.

For the only time in 2015 - well, barring an MLS Cup pairing way down the road - D.C. United will face Real Salt Lake tonight. RSL is in an odd place at the moment: They've won two straight and have just one loss in their last five league games, but are also outside the playoff spots in the West and have a -4 goal difference on the season.

We talk with Brian Dunseth about Real Salt Lake, and about D.C. United and the Gold Cup as well.

JasonAdam, Jason, and Ben are back with an extra-long edition of Filibuster! We start off by talk about D.C. United's comeback victory over the Philadelphia Union. We talk about how impressive the comeback was, how they managed it, and the key play of Nick Deleon, Perry Kitchen, and Alvaro Saborio.

Thanks to CCL teams releasing their schedules and other stuff, we slowly get to schedule-bate on when D.C. may play their Group games.

The fine folks at RSL Soapbox managed to get their hands on some of their dates for the 2015-16 CONCACAF Champions League tournament, but then Real Salt Lake decided to tweet out the windows for CCL games:

Some home cooking against Philly snapped DC back on track while a listless RSL suddenly looks a lot more relevant after a couple of solid wins at home over Houston and Kansas City. To say this summer has been a bit under the weather for DC is perhaps an understatement considering their torrid start to [.

DC United's signing of Alvaro Saborio on Thursday from Real Salt Lake fills a glaring hole in the club's attacking front and bolsters their chances of repeating as Eastern Division champions with the chance to make a deep run into the postseason.

In late 2013, as United sought to rebound from a disastrous MLS season, the club acquired Eddie Johnson from the Seattle Sounders as part of plan to build a roster around players with a successful track record in the league.

DC United's signing of Alvaro Saborio on Thursday from Real Salt Lake fills a glaring hole in the club's attacking front and bolsters their chances of repeating as Eastern Division champions with the chance to make a deep run into the postseason.

In late 2013, as United sought to rebound from a disastrous MLS season, the club acquired Eddie Johnson from the Seattle Sounders as part of plan to build a roster around players with a successful track record in the league.

With Eddie Johnson effectively retired, D.C. United filled a void up top by bringing in seasoned MLS striker Alvaro Saborio from RSL.

Top of the league with 13 games remaining in the season and unlikely to make a splash with an international signing this transfer window, D.C. United made their move yesterday by acquiring Alvaro Saborio in a trade with Real Salt Lake.

Here are the 10 things we learned from week eleven of the Major League Soccer season.

1. Seattle Is The Team To Beat

The Sounders traveled up to BC Place to take on the front-running Vancouver Whitecaps, replaced Obafemi Martins with Chad Barrett, watched Barrett nab a brace, and returned to Seattle with the Cascadia Cup all but locked up and a three-game home-stand to finish May.

Here are the 10 things we learned from week eleven of the Major League Soccer season.

1. Seattle Is The Team To Beat

The Sounders traveled up to BC Place to take on the front-running Vancouver Whitecaps, replaced Obafemi Martins with Chad Barrett, watched Barrett nab a brace, and returned to Seattle with the Cascadia Cup all but locked up and a three-game home-stand to finish May.

Here are the 10 things we learned from gameweek nine of the Major League Soccer season.

1. Sleepwalking in LA

Alan Gordon has, single-handedly netted LA somewhere around five of their 13 points this season. Without Gordon, who hit the 200 appearance landmark against Seattle earlier this year, the Galaxy are bottom of the Western Conference.

Here are the 10 things we learned from gameweek nine of the Major League Soccer season.

1. Sleepwalking in LA

Alan Gordon has, single-handedly netted LA somewhere around five of their 13 points this season. Without Gordon, who hit the 200 appearance landmark against Seattle earlier this year, the Galaxy are bottom of the Western Conference.

The data experts at whoscored.com have put together their Major League Soccer Team of the Week for week seven of the season. Not surprisingly this week's edition includes three players from the New England Revolution after they demolished Real Salt Lake 4-0 on Saturday.

The Revs players in the best XI were defender Chris Tierney and midfielders Scott Caldwell and Juan Agudelo.

Sporting Kansas City starts a busy month of August tomorrow at Sporting Park when they take on the Houston Dynamo at Sporting Park. KC play seven games this month, but the good news is that four of those seven games are at home, including three straight. In the stretch is also the club's US Open Cup semifinal against Real Salt Lake.

Sporting KC finished up their three games in seven day stretch in Salt Lake last night. Making some more changes to his eleven, Peter Vermes tired some further squad rotation to give some guys a break after a busy week. With the changes and exhaustion from the week, it wasn't surprising how the game started, with Salt Lake on the front foot.

Tomorrow night Sporting KC finish up their busy three games in seven day stretch with a game in Salt Lake. After a week that's seen them win against Montreal and advance to the US Open Cup semifinals, the team ends their stretch with one of the more difficult road trips in MLS. Salt Lake has never been an easy place to play, and KC is already 0-1 there this season.

Sporting KC's seven game unbeaten run in MLS play came to a crushing end last night in Sandy, Utah as Real Salt Lake scored a late winner to take all three points. It's the second straight game in Salt Lake between the two teams that has been decided in stoppage time, the last being Ike Opara's 97th minute header back in 2013.

Klinsmann has whittled the United States' 35-man roster down to a 23-man roster as the USMNT begin their quest to the Final at Lincoln Financial Field.

USMNT manager Jürgen Klinsmann released the final 23-man roster for this summer's CONCACAF Gold Cup. This roster is classic Klinsmann in that many of the selections make sense, while a few of the decisions leave you scratching your head.

Not too many great surprises here, aside from the sudden re-inclusions of Davis and Zusi. The roster is listed with the positions used by the USMNT release. As such, I think I'd rather see Brad Evans brought along, with FabJo pushed up to the wing (nothing new in that).G - Brad Guzan (Aston Villa), Nick Rimando (Real Salt Lake), William Yarbrough (León)D - Ventura Alvarado (Club America), John

I'm back with you after a week in Hawaii, and the timing is right since there are a lot of teams with two-game weeks coming up. (~^-^)~umad?~(^-^~) led this round with 93 points. Benny Feilhaber (SKC, $9.9) was captain and scored 40 points on 2 goals and 2 assists. Both Kei Kamara (CLB, $9.

With just a two-point edge over the next closest team, Look Ma, No Hands scored 97 points to lead the round, and no darlin' I don't dance. Captain Pedro Morales (VAN, $11.4) led the way with 28 points on a goal and an assist. Omar Gonzalez (LA, $9.7) scored 13 points with a clean sheet over two games, and Kei Kamara (CLB, $8.

The beIN SPORTS and New York City co-commentator and analyst will discuss several topics on the show including the race in the English Championship, what makes his former club St Pauli so special, and more.

Prior to working at beIN SPORTS, Ian Joy was a footballer at Portland Timbers, St Pauli, Hamburg, Real Salt Lake and several other clubs.

The beIN SPORTS and New York City co-commentator and analyst will discuss several topics on the show including the race in the English Championship, what makes his former club St Pauli so special, and more.

Prior to working at beIN SPORTS, Ian Joy was a footballer at Portland Timbers, St Pauli, Hamburg, Real Salt Lake and several other clubs.

The Rest

Chris Rolfe led the way with two goals for the Black and Red as United (12-7-5, 41 points) further cemented their lead atop the Eastern Conference with their mind-boggling seventh come-from-behind win on the season. Photo: Martin Fernandez

Due to an incredibly busy week at work and future in-laws coming to visit this weekend, your MPG moderator has not had the time to calculate the scores yet for Week 20. We shall make our predictions for this weekend's games as normal, and next week's leaderboard will include the scores from the two prior weeks.